2, 4, 6 AND 8, RED LION STREET

2, 4, 6 AND 8, RED LION STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1167298
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:
2, 4, 6 AND 8, RED LION STREET
Statutory Address:
2, 4, 6 AND 8, RED LION STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1167298
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
2, 4, 6 AND 8, RED LION STREET
Statutory Address 1:
2, 4, 6 AND 8, RED LION STREET

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
2, 4, 6 AND 8, RED LION STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Bromsgrove (District Authority)
Parish:
Alvechurch
National Grid Reference:
SP 02850 72698

Details

SP 02 72 ALVECHURCH CP RED LION STREET (east side)

15/21 Nos 2, 4, 6 and 8 (formerly listed as 6.12.73 Nos 2, 6 and 8)

GV II

House, now three houses and shop. C15, floored C16 with C17 extension and alterations and some mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-frame with brick infill and tile roof. Two framed bays aligned north/south, that to north a former open hall with through-passage at north end, service bay no longer exists; main stack inserted with back to through-passage. Street front: two storeys, 3 + 1 windows: 2- and 3-light casements, that to right in C19 gabled brick addition, which has a shop front on ground floor, rest of ground floor: two 3-light casements, entrances to Nos 6 and 8 between have wooden architraves and C20 doors. Framing: close-studding survives on first floor. Northern truss visible internally has an arch-braced tie-beam and two struts to collar, yoke just below ridge and trenched purlins; inter- mediate hall truss has an arch-braced collar with wattle-and-daub infill. There are extensive traces of smoke-blackening on the roof. The ceiling of the room over the hall has a late C17 decorative design (slightly damaged). No 2 is at the rear, in a C17 extension. (Report by S J Price (1984) in files of Local History Department, Birmingham and City Museums and Art Gallery).

Listing NGR: SP0285172699

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Legacy System number:
156074
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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